Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 04, 2021

P1: Gil tosses a foil-wrapped chocolate football to Heather instead of a Scooby snack.

And that “custom-made spot” would be … ? Readers?

In all reality , stop with the flatery Gil ,I know the custom made spot has nothing to do with coaching football so stop already . Gotta go I have my Sunday column to write.

Now that Heather is back in town, Vito from Goshen is seeing big money bet on Milford winning the Valley. He can’t explain it.

P-1: Apparently, no one in Milford has ever heard of a Coach’s Column.

P-2: (stand alone cell) Heather gets all prim & proper all of a sudden

P-3: Stand alone 2: No Comment

P 2: Nice grip heather. Ball should go end over end when you throw it.

P-4: Pedro’s Patriots? Meeting at Gil’s house during Milford practices.

P 4: “…The Gil Thorp Show for TV. You can write about it for me. I’ll also need you to interview opposing coaches and give me their strategies… “

If The Gilfather put as much effort….or ANY effort into preparing his teams as much as creating custom made spots for cub reporters, those 2nd place trophies would start piling up in the trophy case, Dr. Pearl would have to break ground on a new school addition to handle the extra hardware. BAAHHHAAHHAA! That’s not gonna happen.

“Gil”? Two weeks and a hug and she still didn’t call Ms. Ducey “Marjie”. But her former coach is “Gil” right off the bat?

P4" “I’ll coach game 1 and after that game 10 to the end depending on how you do in the games in between as head coach.”

We kidded around? At the time her father celebrated as if she had gotten her dream job.

“…I got a suggestion from a pal named Vito who thought it’d be cool if you ran a piece about fusing teaching math and picking the over/under and betting the spread on all the Valley games every week. For the kids!”

The former tight end needs to work on her ball handling skills and Gil is the right guy to tutor her

I wonder if Gil ever played catch with Jaime and Kerri??

Yes, Star readers are going to love the Delaware T explainer piece! Didn’t Gil offer the starting QB job to Marjie last year?

This strip gets the award for most oversized drawing of hands.

The kids love it? Didn’t he say it didn’t work well last December? Why do the kids love something that doesn’t work well?

P4- As GilPa tosses the ball thru the tire swinging from a corded rope, tied to a mature tree, Heather gushes, ummm. Nice tight spiral Coach!

For an ex-Tight End, Heather catches like someone who doesn’t know how to catch. And speaking of catches, if you’d like to catch today’s episode of Mopped Up Thorp, why just hop on over here:

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

She throws like a girl.

Three weeks since GilPa changed his shirt with Heather being inspired by her…ahem…mentor, following his lead and not changing hers for two weeks herself, their flirtatious dance continues with GilPa working the angles to keep her close so he can get jiggy with her as Pedro doubles as the pool boy and Thorp “man of the house”, we have met Tevin “Action” Claxton, QB extraordinaire and teen horn dog, as GilPa actually shows up for a practice with no idea whether the team has even played a game.

Meanwhile in Milford, OH the Eagles move to 2-1 on the season and more importantly, FIRST in the Valley (a.k.a Eastern Cincinnati Conference)! Will art imitate life? Will GilPa and Heather change their shirts? When? Who really cares?